If you're from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don't like black people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.
I am not an African. I am an American.
As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.